I saw, however, a woman with one eye, a defect frequently observed in the East.

Female slaves were there of all shades of colour.

One wore a ring through her nose, and another had tastefully painted her lips blue.

Both mistresses and slaves had their eyebrows and eyelashes painted black, and their nails and the palm of the hand stained a light-brown with the juice of the henna.
The Oriental women are ignorant and inquisitive in the highest degree; they can neither read nor write, and the knowledge of a foreign language is quite out of the question.

It is very rarely that one of them understands embroidering in gold.